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Shannon Robbins, Cleburne County engineer, told the commissioners the county's road department has already overspent its $32,000 budget allocation for gravel by about 50 percent and still needs more to deal with the rainy weather.
"We're down to probably four loads at the shop," Robbins said.
The county has 294 miles of dirt road and the wet weather has made those roads slippery, he said. With another week of wet weather predicted, the remaining four loads won't go far, he added.
So far, the department has spent about $48,000 for gravel this fiscal year, he said. For the last three years, the county would have been fine with just the $32,000 allocation, he said, but this year has been exceptional.
Commissioner Laura Cobb said the residents deserve to have safe roads and the commission needs to provide them. Commissioner Emmett Owen asked how much more money the department will need for gravel.
Robbins said one load is about $500 and that is enough to do usually just one road.
Robbins suggested purchasing another $5,000 in gravel and see how far it will go. Then, he said, he would update the commissioners next month.
He has been able to borrow money from other areas in the road department's budget to fill the need so far, and Robbins said he will do that again. However, with the budget process coming up, he wanted the commissioners to know about the problem, he said.
"It's already way over and we've got July, August and September (left) in the budget year," Robbins said.
In other business the commission members:
• Agreed to change their August meeting from Aug. 19 to Aug. 12 so they could attend the Association of County Commissions of Alabama conference the week of the Aug. 19. The commission's Aug. 5 work session will remain as scheduled.
• Heard the county has filed the preliminary paperwork for four of the bridges it would like to replace with federal and state grant money it was awarded in May. The bridges on county roads 2, 5, 96 and 118 will be replaced with ones that can handle school bus and truck traffic, Robbins said.
• Heard that a temporary employee has started working in the finance department as the department deals with the loss of the former chief finance officer, Melissia Wood, who left for a job in Calhoun County.
• Heard that the Sheriff's Office has ordered two new vehicles.
Committee discusses county administrator's salary
The committee created by the Cleburne County Commission to evaluate County Administrator Steve Swafford's contract met for the first time Tuesday to discuss the dollar value of the contract.
The committee was formed at the May 20 commission meeting after commissioners Emmett Owen and Laura Cobb brought up a number of measures to limit Swafford's authority. On April 15, the commission voted to move the finance department out from under Swafford's oversight and bring the department directly under the commission's control.
Both Cobb and Owen have complained about the expense of Swafford's contract, which was approved by the former commission. Owen has called it a burden that the former commissioners put on the county.
Lisa Kemmerlin, human resources officer for the county and a member of the committee, presented a report on the contract.
Swafford's contract ends Dec. 31, 2018, and gives him one raise beginning this October.
His annual salary this fiscal year was $134,840, she said. His new salary beginning next fiscal year will be $141,582. That makes the contract from this fiscal year through Dec. 31, 2018, worth $878,146, said Kemmerlin.
After adding in benefits including insurance, social security and medicare contributions, retirement and leave, the contract is worth just over $1.2 million, she said.
Attending the meeting were three committee members, Kemmerlin, Cobb and Owen. Mary Thompson, who works in the finance department, also attended.
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We recently spent some time with the all new '09 Dodge Ram and let us assure you it's a whole new beast. As Dodge likes to put it; this is their "All-new, bold, powerful, 'get-out-of-the-way Dodge Ram design". This new truck also launches Dodge into the largest and fastest-growing part of the truck market with a Crew Cab model.
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One of the coolest new features we think is going to be a hot ticket for Dodge is their new Rambox cargo management system available in the all-new Crew Cab model. The compartment is located in the rear bedside and is weatherproof, lockable, illuminated and has a drain plug for easy clean up. We were able to stuff golf clubs, fishing poles, baseball equipment and ice and our favorite beverages inside our test truck's Rambox. With over 7.4 feet of cubic space you have more room than a 55-gallon drum in your bedside. That's impressive.
When Dodge first told us about the new coil-spring, multi-link rear suspension system we were a bit skeptical. Could they really ditch leaf springs in the rear and still retain a hauling capacity while towing? They did. The new truck drives like a sedan on the road, loaded and unloaded. The new suspension is also 40 pounds lighter than their previous leaf-spring configuration. Off-road the truck handled very well at both high-speed 2WD driving and crawling in 4WD low range.
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The General Grabber competition tires take home their first win in the Trick Truck class at the BITD Vegas-to-Reno race finishing in Reno, Nevada. Rick Johnson of Team 71 piloted his General Tire Trophy Truck to a victorious win in this grueling race. "This race was incredible. The course was challenging, but the tires hooked up great," Rick Johnson said. "This truck was dialed in for this course and we are stoked to be bringing home a win for General Tire."
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Connecticut Light & Power Co. has made its last, best offer to its unions for a four-year contract — including a promise to hire 30 more line workers and pay raises averaging 2.7 percent — but the deal is likely to go down in a 'no' vote on Oct. 3.
The reason isn't pay, as the average lineman makes $38 an hour and works several hours a week of overtime. Rather, it's the size of the workforce, a growing standoff at a time when CL&P's reliability and responsiveness is still a matter of debate since the debacles of last fall.
As of today, the total number of linemen — they are all men, except one woman in Hartford — is 397 in two union locals of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, down from 416 at the time of the October snowstorm last fall. The 30 added workers, though, will still leave the company and its customers in the lurch as a wave of retirements happen, one of the union leaders said Friday.
"They want to bring us back to the levels of 2007, 2008. It's totally unacceptable," said Frank Cirillo, business manager of Local 420. As for the 30 hires, "it's not even an appetizer. … what we've got, we call the gray-haired tsunami."
The trouble, Cirillo and others say, is that it takes more than four years for a newly hired line worker to become a journeyman. "They need an attrition plan. They don't have one," Cirillo said, adding that the ranks have been cut in half since a generation ago, while the job has basically remained the same.
On top of the workforce issue, the unions oppose CL&P efforts to increase workers' share of health insurance premiums, which are now about 85 percent paid by the company.
The result, Cirillo declared, is that IBEW Local 420 leadership will recommend a 'no' vote and his counterparts at Local 457 will do the same. This comes as the union works under a contract that expired June 1. Since a 'no' vote authorizes a strike, we could be looking at a walkout as the cold months hit — exactly when the ice storms could start.
CL&P says its staffing is where it should be — and that ridiculous, arcane union work rules prevent the company from operating at full efficiency.
"It would be imprudent to hire people when the work isn't there," said Caroline Pretyman, a spokeswoman for Northeast Utilities, the parent of CL&P. "In terms of upgrades or the maintenance of our system, we think we have the number of workers that reflect the work that is there ... when we have a storm, of course we're going to call on contractors and outside workers."
Pretyman makes the point that no reasonable amount of hiring will address the needs of a widespread emergency like the ones we had last year. There were, for example, 2,200 two-person crews on the ground at the height of the restoration early last November, she said — far more than the ratepayers can afford to keep on staff.
The bigger issue than overall numbers is flexibility, Pretyman says. For example, the company would like to launch a second shift for linemen, which — amazingly — it does not now have. "Most power outages are in the afternoon or early evening hours," she said. "Just as police officers, firefighters and other public safety workers are scheduled at different shifts, we need that flexibility."
Cirillo and John Fernandes, business manager of local 457, say they don't oppose a second shift but the numbers don't support it. Because of union rules, it would be staffed by younger, less senior guys, leaving the oldest workers on the day shift, unable to get all the regular work done.
There are other work rules in dispute, which the company claims allow workers over age 45 to decline some non-emergency overtime, and allow workers to decline non-emergency overtime in different zones of the state, or allow workers to decline to work with members of a different color group — the contracts are divided between blue and green, dating to the 1970s merger of old Hartford Electric Light Co. into CL&P.
Cirillo says the company is lying about some of these work rules — the company enforces what it wants, he said, and, anyway, the rules do not impede efficiency, he argued. "It hasn't been at all inefficient, that's total bull."
Staffing came up in the talks leading up to the April merger of NU and Boston-based NSTAR, when the companies promised not to cut the number of workers in the field, and in customer service. That matters because in office work, NU and CL&P have begun cutting jobs.
State regulators have the right to review line worker staffing, but the rules are fuzzy on actual numbers. The recent order by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority states, for example, "CL&P shall formulate a plan to establish a heightened state of readiness … by July 1 of each year."
What we have is a balancing act. Since ratepayers pony up for added staffing, regulators and state Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz, whose office advocates for ratepayers, don't want to see a fat payroll. On the other hand, they need to make sure we have not only reliability and resiliency, but reasonable wait times for regular service — something the union leaders say is not in place now.
"I hope they come to their senses and think about what their need is vs. what their want is," Fernandes said.
With overtime, the average lineman makes over $100,000 — something Cirillo is not apologizing for. They do dangerous work under brutal conditions, on call constantly, and many have had multiple surgeries. And anyway, the company can't gain the upper hand on pay until it stops handing out salaries in the millions to executives of a fully regulated firm, with virtually guaranteed margins.
Here is what you will not hear at the union rally scheduled for Monday at noon at the state Capitol, or from company officials: What we have here is a broken system with a standoff that will not end without outside intervention. We're relying on a method in which regulators have purview over staffing only when a rate case comes up, and in which collective bargaining is the only check against a company's cutting too deeply.
There is no way for a journalist, or the public, to sort through the accusations and countercharges about these staffing levels and work rules, though it certainly looks as though the company needs to hire more than 30 line workers and the union needs to give back some of the rules.
What's needed is a neutral mediation, now, on the best way to reorganize the work in a way that's efficient and fair — for employees, stockholders and ratepayers. Not a mediation around a table in a conference room, but on the ground, the way a consulting firm would operate, by investigating to see who's right and who's wrong in the 18 CL&P field work centers.
And some of the added line workers, whether the number is three or 30 or 300, need to be women.


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I really, really, really hope we can get our first road win. We should be able score inside easily.
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Enes is averaging 14 minutes, 5 points, 3 rebounds and 0.5 blocks per game.
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Jonas starts the games but usually leaves early due to foul trouble, since he will be gaurding Big Al to start I predict that foul trouble won't be a problem for big V.
Enes doesn't start, and doesn't play very long even when he is playing well. The chances of these two matching up against each other is slim. I just hope it is better than the Burks versus Leonard matchup last week.
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The article below, by Andrea Johnson '15, is based on a speech she gave during a Friday morning Community Gathering that focused on the College's annual drag-themed party, Crystal Ball. Andrea is currently on study abroad in Bonn, Germany.
When I was younger, I was incredibly attached to my hair. It reminded me of the beautiful princesses I read about in books and saw in movies. And even at the age of five, I recognized that having long hair meant you were a girl.
Even though I loved my hair, every time my mom brushed through it, I complained loudly. One day during this torture--a.k.a. hair brushing--my mom threatened to chop off my hair if I kept complaining. Well, I complained and two days later was left with a bowl cut above my ears and a foot of hair lying on the floor of the hair dresser.
I cried the entire car ride home. That woman hadn't just cut off hair, she had, in my young mind, made me a boy. From that day onward I swore to never have short "boy" hair again. That awful haircut wasn't the only thing that was "boyish" about me. My face looked more like Superman with his large cleft chin rather than my pretty Barbie doll. My face was square and pudgy and masculine, not heart-shaped and dainty. Actually, nothing about me was dainty. I often towered over everyone, including my teachers and all the boys. My shoulders were broad, my feet were huge, my voice was deep, and everything about me just seemed manly.
Throughout junior high and high school, I compensated for my height by slouching so I could be like the other petite girls, and I apologized constantly for the parts of me that were not girly enough in my eyes. My biggest fear was someone calling me, or mistaking me for, a boy.
To say that my first year of college opened up my world would be an understatement. I was challenged academically, I called myself a feminist, I made new friends and eventually began uncovering a truer version of myself. But even with all of that openness, I still harbored these deep-seated fears about looking too much like a man. Whatever fear I felt about my bowl cut was amplified by ten when I heard about Crystal Ball my freshman year. I knew that I wanted to participate in order to help create a positive atmosphere for people who didn't fit into normative gender categories, yet I knew that because I identify as a woman my drag persona would be a man. And that scared me a lot.
With encouragement from my friends and a lot deep breathing on my part I decided to participate. I decided to confront my fear by embodying that I can look androgynous. I bound my chest and slicked back my long hair. After pulling all of my hair back into a tight bun, my forehead was exposed. There were no wispy bangs or locks to hide my full square face. I took off my earrings, my necklace, my ring. I wore men's dress slacks and a large men's button down shirt with a couple layers underneath to hide my curves. I tucked in my shirt and put on my belt. I used mascara to make my eyebrows bushier and less shapely, the complete opposite of my usual goal. I slipped on plain black dress socks and looked myself over in the mirror.
Staring back at me was a man that looked like a cross between my brother and Leonardo DiCaprio. He had class that was understated, but a shy sort of confidence. Clean shaven, but not too clean cut. He was the cool-but-slightly-awkward guy
"I decided to confront my fear."in the room. The height that made me freakish as a girl, the wide shoulders that made me self-conscious, the large forehead that I hid behind hair, the deep voice that could move so easily into the deeper registers all fit this new persona. I looked so convincing as a man that even my best friend didn't recognize me, and my other friends said I made an attractive man.
At the dance, I attempted to stay in character and was consciously aware of how I moved and walked and talked and danced. Trying to act like a man was more difficult than looking like one. Deciding what type of man to impersonate raised all sorts of questions and let me laugh at myself throughout my various attempts. My voice cracked from trying to speak lower than I was accustomed to. Standing still on the dance floor, I tried to figure out how men dance. I had fun exploring the "someone else" I had created that was a part of me too.
After Crystal Ball I realized I had succeeded in many ways. By trying on the gender I was so afraid of looking like before, I better accepted myself as the woman I am. I started to enjoy when people were so amazed at how I could transform between genders and took that occasional transformation as a compliment rather than an insult. Drag allowed me the opportunity to confront one of my most private and embarrassing fears. All of the gendered baggage from my childhood surrounding my image seemed to disappear just like my hair did the day of that awful bowl cut.
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What have been the some of the all time best meets. This is not to say the longest running or the best run meet but what meet has had the best perfomances?
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Olympic trials 1988 (before we found out about the drug implications) which included Flo Jo's 10.49, the men's 100 with 7 dipping under 10.00 albeit windaided, Five men under the 48.00 barrier in the 400 hurdles, Willie Banks jumping 59+ in the TJ? "King" Carl jumping 28' 9" in the rain to snatch the victory from Larry Myrick's 28' 8.5"
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Welcome everyone to the home of the Stark County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society on the web. Since our inception in 1973 our mission has been to bring together all people with an interest in genealogy as a hobby or a profession. We mainly accomplish that mission by the three ways that are mentioned below.
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One of the biggest ways that we accomplish our mission here is through our Monthly Meetings. These meetings are held in Room 107 at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Canton on the second Thursday of each month except for our annual picnic in July, the annual banquet in November, and the Christmas break in December. These meetings usually consist of a society meeting followed by various speakers and presentations on genealogy in general or on the history and people of Stark County.
Snacks and refreshments are served at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00 pm. As always guests are welcome to attend. For a complete list of the meetings for the year please look on our Meetings page or you can look at the left sidebar to see when our latest meeting will be and what it will be about.
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Primary Investigator: Kul Aggarwal, MDStudy Coordinator: Alisa Lau-Sieckman, RN
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Study Title: A multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of SCH530348 in addition to standard of care in subjects with a history of atherosclerotic disease: Thrombin receptor antagonist for secondary prevention of atherothrombotic ischemic eventsPurpose: The primary objective is to evaluate the hypothesis that SCH530348 added to standard of care alone, as measured by the composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and urgent coronary revascularization. Inclusion Criteria:1. Subject may be of either sex and any race, and must be at least 18 years old.2. Subject must have evidence or a history of atherosclerosis involving the coronary, cerebral, or peripheral vascular systems as follows: a. Coronary artery disease (CAD) as indicated by a history of presumed spontaneous MI (hospitalized with final diagnosis of MI, excluding periprocedural or definite secondary MI [e.g., due to profound anemia or hypertensive emergency, troponin increase in sepsis]) ≥2 weeks but ≤12 months prior. b. Ischemic (presumed thrombotic) cardiovascular disease (CVD) as indicated by a history of ischemic stroke (hospitalized with final diagnosis of nonhemorrhagic stroke) ≥2 weeks but ≤12 months prior. c. PAD as indicated by a history of intermittent claudication and i. an ankle/brachial index (ABI) of <0.85, OR ii. amputation, peripheral bypass, or peripheral angioplasty of the extremities secondary to ischemia.3. A woman of child-bearing potential who is currently sexually active must agree to use a medically accepted method of contraception prior to screening, while receiving protocol-specified medication, and for two months after stopping the medication. 4. A woman of child-bearing potential who is not currently sexually active must agree to use a medically accepted method of contraception should she become sexually active while participating in the study.Exclusion Criteria:The subject will be excluded from entry if ANY of the criteria listed below are met:1. Clinically unstable at the time of enrollment.2. Any planned coronary revascularization or peripheral intervention.3. Concurrent or anticipated treatment with warfarin (or derivatives, e.g., phenprocoumon), oral factor Xa inhibitor, or oral direct thrombin inhibitor after enrollment.(NOTE: A subject who was not using warfarin/derivatives and for whom use was not anticipated, but who subsequently requires warfarin/derivatives after randomized assignment of study drug may continue treatment with warfarin/derivatives and randomized study drug)4. Concurrent or anticipated treatment with a potent inducer (e.g., rifampin) or potent inhibitor (e.g., ketoconazole, erythromycin) of CYP3A4 isoenzymes (a more detailed list will be supplied in separate instructions to the investigator).(NOTE: A subject who was not using a potent CYP3A4 inducer or potent inhibitor and/or for whom such therapy was not anticipated, but who subsequently requires such therapy after randomized assignment of study drug may receive such therapy.5. History of a bleeding diathesis, or evidence of active abnormal bleeding within 30 days before enrollment.6. History at any time of intracranial hemorrhage, intracranial or spinal cord surgery, or a central nervous system tumor or aneurysm.7. Documented sustained severe hypertension (systolic blood pressure >200 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure >110 mmHg) at enrollment or within the previous 10 days.8. Severe valvular heart disease.9. History within two weeks prior to enrollment of major surgery other than mentioned above or of ischemic (presumed thrombotic) stroke.10. Known platelet count <100,000/mm3 within 30 days before enrollment.11. Active hepatobiliary disease, or unexplained persistent increase in serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activity to two times or more the upper limit of the reference range (upper limit of "normal" [≥2xULN]).12. Any serious illness or any condition that the investigator feels would: (a) pose a significant hazard to the subject if investigational therapy were initiated, OR (b) would limit the prognosis of the subject, regardless of investigational therapy.13. Any serious medical comorbidity (e.g., active malignancy) such that the subject's life expectancy is <24 months.14. Known hypersensitivity to any component of the current investigational product.15. Subject is a woman who is breast-feeding, pregnant, or who intends to become pregnant (affirm that a female subject of child-bearing potential is not pregnant before enrollment [method of affirmation left to the discretion of the investigator]).16. Subject is part of the staff personnel directly involved with this study, or is a family member of the investigational staff.17. Known current substance abuse at the time of enrollment.
Actions:1. Call Alisa Lau-Sieckman (beeper: 573-443-9259) and/or on-call research nurse (on-call beeper 573-499-8084) or Dr. Aggarwal if subject is admitted to the hospital or for any questions regarding study medication.


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Meeting your mom is great, because its typically an easy way to score points. Your boyfriend knows that as long as he speaks highly of you, asks her questions, and doesnt accidentally use her drapes as a hand towel, Mom will probably like him. Fathers, however, are another matter. Your dad is a dude and has had sex at least once, which means he knows the kinds of things your boyfriend thinks about and the kinds of things you do with your boyfriendand your boyfriend knows that your dad knows these things. The result is at least slight discomfort and at worst naked terror, no matter how cool or laid back Dad is. So when they first meet, try not to leave them alone together for any longer than it takes you to pee.
Boyfriends tend to love brothers. After all, making friends with them can be the easiest thing in the world, because theyre not just dudes you know, theyre dudes you know who have absolutely no desire to date you. However, brothers have the same capacity to be protective as dadsthe difference being that its way more annoying when brothers do it. (Its also intimidating if your brother is older. And jacked. And an avid hunter.) But the trickier relationship is with your sister: After all, shes a woman who looks and acts somewhat like you, and who also happens to be a total sexual taboo. So if hes a little standoffish around her, dont paniches just doing his best to make sure you know hes not thinking about anything he shouldnt be thinking about.
To be perfectly honest, yes, hes checking them out. Hes not doing it because he wants to have sex with themunless youd be okay with thator because hes looking to trade up. Hes doing it because well, because hed check out chicks even if he was at a funeral in a burning building. What hes truly concerned about is getting them on his side. He knows that youre going to ask them for their opinions of him and that his stock will shoot way up if they like him. So hell be trying hard; all you have to do is grease the social wheels. Oh, and if you find yourself getting pissed at how flirtatious hes being, dont. Hes just trying hard to be charming so that they give him the thumbs up.
Sure, your boyfriend sizes him up to see if he has bigger guns or if hes losing his hair faster, but unless your ex has a Tom Brady physique coupled with a Robert Pattinson ability to brood, looks really arent all that big a deal. Instead, your guy is much more concerned about outdoing your ex in some way. Since youd frown on him smashing a chair over your exs back, your boyfriend probably just wants to make you laugh in front of him. In fact, what you do in front of your ex is far more important than anything your ex does. If you seem nervous or bothered by his presence, your boyfriend will probably assume that you still have feelings. Which you dont right?
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I am 20 Years old, I am 39 weeks today and I have been thinking, through this whole thing; I decided that I don't want to have another child till I am fully financially stable, & out on my own. I ran the idea of getting my tubes tied after my daughter comes; but my doctor refused to do the procedure. I was offended because I felt like this is my body, I should be able to say what I would like done to ensure that I don't have any other children. Is it normal for doctors to turn down procedures even when you should be allowed to do what you want especially when there is no risk involved. Has anyone else had this problem or know what I could do about this.
Yes this is normal... Is this your first baby? The reason I ask is the average family size in the US is 2.5 kids (i know .5 kids sounds funny but it's a statistic). Most women when they're pregnant will say that they're done or done for a while and when that baby comes and a few months pass and the agony of pregnancy and childbirth pass and you find yourself thinking about having another one. Having a tubal is a permanent procedure and can not be reversed. Considering your age you have a lot of childbearing years ahead of you and doctors generally won't do a permanent procedure on someone who down the road may want another child. If there were some medically necessary reason to do it then maybe, but just on the grounds of not being financially stable at 20 isn't a good enough reason for that sort of procedure. I'm 27 and just now getting on my feet, it's a rough world out there.... maybe instead of a tubal you could choose a long term birth control. I have Mirena and the success rate of it is great from what my doctor has told me. less than a 1% chance of pregnancy if it's inserted properly and the once grace period has passed... which is only a couple of weeks. Mine was a one time expense, did not hurt to have put in, lasts for up to 5 years, and I can have it removed whenever i decide to become pregnant again. There is another IUD that lasts up to 10 years and works the same as mirena only it doesn't use progesterone, it uses copper instead. There are many birth controls on the market so maybe you could explore some of those options instead. I'm sorry i have to agree with your doctor though.. you may be too young to understand or care about the consequences of getting a tubal.. I hope this doesn't make you angry, but you really do have a long life ahead of you and you don't know if in the next few years your situation will change for the better and you may want another baby at that point.
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Sorry you are dealing with some frustration over this issue. Many physicians have reservations about performing a procedure like that on people who are still young in their childbearing years. Sometimes reversing the procedure is not as easy as it seems like it would be. Did you ask your doctor why he turned you down? Perhaps it would be good to get a full explanation from him as to what his rationale was and the medical reasons behind it. It's always a positive thing to be in good communication with your health care providers. If you are feeling uncomfortable talking to him, maybe you could set up an appointment with a public health nurse to discuss your options for contraception. Hope this helps a little. :-)
I just had my second baby, a baby girl, im so happy. When I was in the hospital my doctor ask me if I wanted to do that procedure on me after delivery, but my answer was NO. Having a child is a blessing, a gift that God send to you, it doesn't matter if you are having tons of problems, a baby always is a wonderful experince. I plan to have another baby, maybe 6 or 7 years later. if you want we can talk about contraceptives, one that can fit your life style, so yo don't have to get your tubes tied. I have heard women who repent of doing that, because sometimes, once you do, NO return.
I will wait for your answer.
You sound frustrated in your post, and that is understandable! If you do not feel that your doctor is the right fit for you it is your right to get a 2nd opinion. You can do this for any reason for any condition. Another thing you might want to do is take a look under the moms/dads board on our website as there is a post titled "contraception" that discuses several different kinds of birth control. I think that becoming educated on what all of your options are is one of the best things that you can do. Let us know how things are going,
Yes he said mostly because of my age, I'm barely going to be 21 in October of this year so he feels that I would like another child later in life, so he told me to research other birth control options and we will talk about them on Thursday, which is my next doctors appointment.
I feel that I would want another kid later on in life, but I can always adopt if the procedure is no way reversible; but my mother had her tubes tied after she had my brother, and ended up getting pregnant with me and my sister. I still have about another week or so to think about this; I could end up just getting back on the pill till I am very certain about getting my tubes tied. I am however going to research other options with low risks, because the side effects of the birth control really has me nervous about giving them a try.
OK, I plan on doing that now, thank you and yeah I was pretty frustrated when I wrote this quote because I felt like I should be able to say what I could do with my body; this experience is just not the "happy experience" that I know it should have been for me. However I still look towards the bright sides of things because I wouldn't want me being mad and overwhelmed all the time to take its toll on her, but sometimes it does get the best of me.
It really seems like this issue makes sense from both sides. Obviously, a doctor shouldn't be able to tell you what to do... if you want the procedure done, as an adult, you should be able to make your own decisions. Did you discuss it with the Doc prior to the day you delivered? From the Doc's perspective, I can also see the logic of not doing that particular procedure on a patient who has so possible child bearing years still available. Sorry you are frustrated!
Getting your tubes tied is a procedure that should not be entered into lightly and most doctors will not perform it on someone so young. The things you are thinking now are probably not how you will feel in 5 years, 10 years or even 15. With that in mind, I certainly understand your frustration but you have so much more control over getting pregnant than you think. Now a days, there are so many great choices out there that can help prevent pregnancies...there are implants, shots, pills, etc.. Make sure you go over all of your options with your doctor before choosing the birth control method that will fit your lifestyle in the upcoming years. My friend chose to get an implant because she didn't want to have to think about birth control every day. An option like that may give you the freedom you were looking for when you thought about getting your tubes tied. Good luck and let us know how you do!
Depending where you live most doctors cant and won't until your either 25, married and your husband and you sign off or have at least 2 children. If you tie your tubes yes you can't have children but if you decide later on to untie its VERY expensive and hardly any insurances cover it. Meanwhile try Implannon Iud good for 3 years goes in your arm after 3 years you can switch to your other arm. Mirena goes down there good for 5 yrs and I believe there is a 10 yr one as well talk to your doc about a bc that you dont have to worry about like the Iud theres no remembering every day to do something or buying of condoms...
I didnt know that I would have to have me and my significant other sign a paper, thank you for the insight; I however have did research on my options. I think that I will just get on the pill again, or the patch those are my last two options after narrowing everything down, I would like to thank everyone on their help.
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